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                    that the stars when he said, “For my         certainty.  But,  the  sight  of  the  stars
                    part,  I  do  know  nothing  with  any       makes me dream…”

                           Organ Donation: Need of Time






                                          By Bhakti Radhakrishna Malandkar



                                                                 suffering from organ failure due to his
                                                                 chronic  addiction  to  alcohol  and
                                                                 smoking  and  would  require  an
                                                                 immediate organ transplant.

                                                                 We tried our best to find a donor but
                                                                 ALAS!  Grandpa  took  his  last  breath
                                                                 then  and  there.    I  was  completely
                                                                 shooked  and  driven  away  for  a
                                                                 moment & tears were drooling heavily

                                                                 through  my  eyes.  And  for  the  very
                    During high school days, at the time         first time I realized that;
                    of vacation, when I was in 11th grade,
                    our  whole  family  went  to  visit  our     'ORGAN          DONATION            has
                    grandpa's  house  as  a  trip.  I  and  my   become  the  need  to  save  one's
                    sister  being  the  favorite  kids  of  my   life!'
                    grandpa.  Though he was one of the           What  is  the  use  of  having  crores  in
                    strictest  people  of  our  entire  family,   one's  bank  account  &  yet  not  being
                    he  was  very  much  loving  &  caring       able to save a life?
                    towards  us  both.    Once,  after
                    finishing  our  noontime  lunch,  we  all    In  a  country,    where  the  national
                    together were sitting in the verandah        income of an individual per day is not
                    along  with  grandpa.    Suddenly,  he       even  Rs.50  where  millions  of  its
                    started coughing up a lot, along with a      population  have  only  less  than  20
                    feeling  of  Air  hunger,  and  he  felt     Rupees  to  spend,    where  life  has
                    giddiness and laid unconscious within        become  an  endless  struggle  for
                    a fraction of a second.   My heartbeat       survival.  A welfare state is looked up
                    suddenly  raised  with  my  hands            as one that treats  all its people alike,
                    shivering a lot as I would not be able       where all enjoy equal rights & nobody
                    to pick up what was happening beside         is  discriminated  against  because  of
                    me.    He  was  admitted  to  a  nearby      caste  or  creed,  religion,  or  race.
                    hospital where doctors declared he is        When  the  body  is  crying  for  organ,




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